Command Line Interface Guidelines
Saw Command Line Interface Guidelines today.
josh.fail
Random thoughts about programming.
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ical-guy: a morning with Claude Code
A few years ago I wanted to automate extracting my calendar events into markdown files in my Obsidian vault. It turned into a project and a half, a brittle pipeline of bash, Ruby, AppleScript, and a fork of icalBuddy that was on its last legs. Here’s how a few hours on a Sunday morning with Claude Code replaced it all with a modern EventKit-based Swift CLI.
Something Big Is Happening
If you work with a computer in any way to put food on the table, you need to be ready for what is happening right now with AI.
ChatGPT, is there a seahorse emoji?
ChatGPT, is there a seahorse emoji? Yep 🐠 — there’s a seahorse emoji: 🐎🌊 no wait, that’s not it — here’s the real one: 🐉♂️ okay okay, for real this time: 🐠 (still wrong 😆).
Using Direnv to set Herd PHP versions
I write an article for BuiltFast.dev about how I manage Herd PHP versions using Direnv.
Xterm 256 color names for Vim
Now that MacOS terminal supports 256 colors I keep needing to know the Xterm/ANSI names. I found this list—copying it here for future reference.
phpstan-sensitive-parameter
I wanted a way to automatically detect parameters in PHP functions and methods that might contain sensitive information, so I created this PHPStan extension to help identify parameters that should be marked with the #[\SensitiveParameter] attribute.
Introducing BuiltFast
I still remember being 13, getting our first computer and AOL account—suddenly having a voice online and being able to use my love for technology to take an idea and create something out of nothing changed everything for me. That moment sparked a journey that eventually led to 20 years in hosting and engineering leadership.
We are destroying software
antirez, the author of Redis, had this to say about us destroying software.
~/.ssh/authorized_keys on OPNsense
Hit a gotcha on OPNsense today with ~/.ssh/authorized_keys not working as expected.